FARM OR URBAN LAND?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27450, 25 July 1950, Page 7

FARM OR URBAN LAND?

Appeal To Land Valuation Court The Land Valuation Court —Judge Archer and Messrs W. Stewart and A. A. McLauchlan reserved its decision at a sitting in Dunedin yesterday on an appeal to have a section of an acre and a-half in Everton street, Anderson’s. Bay, declared as urban land so it could be sold on the open market. The Land Valuation Committee had previously determined the property as farm land. The appellants were William Maurice Smith and Phyllis Smith (Mr F. W. Guest), while the appeal was opposed by the Crown (Mr J. R. Hampton). , Mr Guest said that part of the property, which was used as a poultry farm, was in the residential area. It was served by the city with drainage and water, and was also rated as urban property. Counsel said that the farm itself aid not produce anything for the poultry, and it was not an economic unit in that sense. The city had progressed beyond the property, which, he submitted, was now urban land. Mr Hampton submitted that the property was definitely farm land under the. Act. Decision, was reserved.